GN Solids Control centrifuge is high quality with reasonable price, centrifuge operation is also very important. And it require operator with many years experience or with training certificate from professional centrifuge supplier. In many cases, centrifuge problem is because of non-professional operation, not centrifuge itself.

For example, one centrifuge is used for treating the mud after vertical cuttings dryer. The mud discharged from vertical cuttings dryer is very heavy mud with high density, viscosity and not good flowability. In this case, if you feed the centrifuge directly, the feed pump will not work well and the centrifuge is easy to trip off. Our suggestion is the client can design one holding tank between the vertical cuttings dryer & the centrifuge, install one agitator in the mud tank to suspend the drilling mud and adding water if necessary to lower down the density of the mud. The centrifuge will surely working very fine under professional operations.

Another, vertical cuttings dryer block and trip off sometime, why? This is self protection of the vertical cuttings dryer when faced with wrong operation. We recommend the engineers to select the proper material for dryer. For example, it is not good to use vertical dryer to treat the mud waste discharged from mud cleaners & centrifuge. Because the separation point of the vertical dryer is about 0.5mm; however, the particles discharged from mud cleaner & centrifuge is much smaller than 0.5mm, around some hundred microns or even smaller than 100microns. In this case, the vertical dryer screen basket is easy to block, not good performance. The vertical cuttings dryer is very picky, it can only treat the drilling cuttings discharged from shale shaker.

Except for centrifuge and dryer, other equipment like shale shaker, mud cleaner, agitator, centrifugal pump is much easier operation. The shaker have to use proper deck angle and replace the shaker screens when necessary, mud agitator need to add gear oil for the gearbox, the centrifugal pump also need lubrication oil. Pls follow the instructions on label or user manual to do correct oil lubrication.